How to Use thesaurus in a Sentence

thesaurus

noun
  • So why does this paper seem to have been co-written by a thesaurus?
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Grab your thesaurus and look up another word for bad, another word for tragic.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Newell — having absorbed the whole vocal thesaurus of diva riffs, shouts, gurgles and growls — stops the show.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Your mental dictionary is also like a thesaurus.
    — Nichol Castro, The Conversation, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Be your own thesaurus and fact-checker, and squint with your ears at phrasing that comes off as aggressively neutral.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Joniak might need a thesaurus as Justin Fields’ career takes flight for the Bears.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Books, including a thesaurus so tattered from use that back when there were regular tours of the newsroom, the tour guide would show it to visitors.
    — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
  • No thesaurus on earth can provide the appropriate adjectives.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Make sure to fold the letter correctly and use the Jane Austen thesaurus to keep your language historical.
    — Annalise Frank, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • At the same time, the movie’s presumably normally gifted men are as superfluous to the proceedings as a thesaurus in the writers’ room.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Or perhaps his anti-Trump, pro-Clinton sentiments were not germane to his mere copy editing or his reliance on a thesaurus.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Pack a low-back chair and a picnic (and maybe a thesaurus), and skip merrily off into the forest with Theseus and Hippolyta.
    — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 June 2018
  • But he is adored by the party members in the country who cherish his Bertie Wooster-with-a-thesaurus speeches and flamboyant style.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2019
  • In the unabridged gentrification thesaurus, Whole Foods is a universal synonym for white people.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The consensus among these experts is that AI, while a clear labor threat, will become a baseline tool for comedy writers, like a thesaurus or a search engine.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • Over-the-top rhetoric that sounds as if someone locked Kiley in a room with a thesaurus, but doesn’t really conform to what even Newsom’s critics think of his performance.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But the band’s coolness has been constantly called into question by male rock critics high on their own thesaurus finds, and lazy SNL skits about lesbian culture.
    — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 July 2023
  • At their simplest, these programs mask plagiarism through liberal use of a thesaurus; replace enough words with synonyms and hopefully nobody will ever find the original source.
    — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Accordingly, to try to describe the near $110 billion the US has pledged to Ukraine in the last year sends one scrambling for a thesaurus.
    — Thomas Sadoski, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But instead of advocating for the causes in which players have protested this season, joining Kapernick's cause, owners skimmed through their thesaurus looking for safe words.
    — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Flip through a thesaurus or take online quizzes to test your vocabulary, and gradually intumesce your personal lexicon and chevvy your kin with your verbosity.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Differentiation—uniqueness, novelty, more thesaurus terms for that word—arguably is the most important facet of Dropout content.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • Spending meaningful time with a thesaurus while also seeking out professional branding identity experts is advisable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Other popular titles include thesauruses, small business startup, drawing, exercise, fiction of all kinds and religion, according to the website.
    — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
  • The protest — proudly accessorized with swastikas, Confederate flags, and an unabridged thesaurus of slurs — was perhaps the most grotesque manifestation of bigotry since the 2016 election.
    — Lauren Duca, Teen Vogue, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Synonymy—the concept of distinct words signifying the same thing—was understood as far back as Ancient Greece, but the Archbishop of Seville authored the earliest work modern readers might recognize as a thesaurus.
    — Claudia Kalb, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021

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